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Metropolitan Desk

Sometimes the lines of funeral cars stretched for miles. The floral tributes were crafted with the ambition of sculpture. The mourners hailed from all walks of society, including Hollywood, the sports world, government. The funerals of organized-crime bosses have often been De Mille-esque spectacles. But Vincent Gigante, one of the leading crime figures of the last century, was buried yesterday largely with the anonymity he sought, unsuccessfully, in life.

June 27, 2011, Monday

Tariq Aziz, deputy prime minister under Saddam Hussein, testified at his former boss's trial last week in what appeared to be hospital pajamas. Mr. Aziz' attire may have been intended to support claims that he is too sick to stand trial on charges...

December 20, 2005, Tuesday

AN enduring urban mystery was solved last week when Vincent (The Chin) Gigante, the Mafia leader who spent decades slobbering, muttering and wandering Manhattan in his bedclothes, admitted in a Brooklyn federal court that he had deceived the teams of...

April 13, 2003, Sunday

''DO you understand that?'' The question echoed like a sonnet's refrain across the Brooklyn courtroom yesterday. Over and over, each time he explained a point of law or stated a simple fact, Judge I. Leo Glasser of Federal District Court loudly...

April 8, 2003, Tuesday

Just weeks after the F.B.I. won its first defections from within the seemingly impenetrable Bonanno crime family, federal prosecutors yesterday unsealed a racketeering and murder indictment against the elusive man they say is the family's boss. ...

January 10, 2003, Friday

After a major shift of legal strategy by the imprisoned Mafia leader Vincent Gigante, a federal judge in Brooklyn yesterday declared that Mr. Gigante ''is both mentally and physically fit to stand trial'' in a racketeering case that includes charges...

April 24, 2002, Wednesday

When Vincent Gigante, the convicted Mafia leader who says he is insane, called from prison, he said his daughter was under the weather. Laryngitis. ''She says she's lost her voice,'' he said cheerfully while a prison tape recorder captured his...

March 21, 2002, Thursday

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